At Morros dos Martins beach, about 80 miles northwest of Natal, Damiao Henrique, 70, plugged electric cables to a pump so he could water his bean plants. A fisherman and farmer, he was removed from hi ...

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo skirmished with a senior House Democrat on Wednesday in a bit ...

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo skirmished with a senior House Democrat on Wednesday in a bitter back-and-forth over his years-ago treatment of Hillary Clinton in the aftermath of a 2012 d ...

Cardinal Castrillón justified using the cartel’s money by saying it would otherwise have gone to illegal ...

Cardinal Castrillón justified using the cartel’s money by saying it would otherwise have gone to illegal undertakings. (He told cartel members, though, that giving alms “would not save their souls.”)P ...

Madidi National Park in Bolivia goes from lowland to mountaintop, from 600 feet to almost 20,000 feet abo ...

Madidi National Park in Bolivia goes from lowland to mountaintop, from 600 feet to almost 20,000 feet above sea level. It covers more than 7,000 square miles of wildly different habitats. It is, says ...

In the small town of Havre, Mont., the Town Pump Convenience Store is about the only shop open after midn ...

In the small town of Havre, Mont., the Town Pump Convenience Store is about the only shop open after midnight. It was about that time last Wednesday when a pair of friends, Ana Suda, who was out of eg ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — President Nicolás Maduro won a second term as president of Venezuela, a country in t ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — President Nicolás Maduro won a second term as president of Venezuela, a country in the midst of a historic economic collapse marked by soaring prices, widespread hunger, rampant c ...

He joined neighbors and strangers who converged on the smoldering husk of the plane, looking for survivor ...

He joined neighbors and strangers who converged on the smoldering husk of the plane, looking for survivors. Mr. Santana said charred bodies, some dismembered, were scattered across the site; some had ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — Just two days before presidential elections in Venezuela, the Trump administration o ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — Just two days before presidential elections in Venezuela, the Trump administration on Friday announced sanctions against a powerful governing party politician, accusing him of dru ...

CIUDAD GUYANA, Venezuela — Julio Romero emerged from the flag-waving crowd as President Nicolás Maduro stood smiling on a stage, dancing to an election jingle.Mr. Romero, 42, was in no mood to celebra ...